Cloud computing killed the app dev star

VMWare’s purchase of SpringSource turned a lot of heads by creating a virtualization provider whose pedigree reaches deep into the application level. Moves like this have a lot of people wondering, what exactly is the future of application development in this age of abstract cloud platforms and virtual machines?

The Server Side editor Peter Varhol takes a grave look at how advances in cloud computing will stifle traditional development in his post, “Application Development is Dead.”